| Task | Choose the sentence with the right word order |
|---|---|
| Answer | 3 |
| a | Is what the name of this street? |
| b | The name of this street is what? |
| c | What is the name of this street? |
| d | What the name of this street is? |
| comment | In the test sentence ‘What is the name of this street?’ we are given a wh-question, because it contains the question word ‘what’ that is used to request information about something (here, the name of the street).The word order in ‘wh-questions’ is similar to ‘Yes/No questions’, but in ‘wh-questions’ question words ‘when’, ‘what’, ‘who’, ‘whose’, ‘where’, ‘how’, ‘which’, ‘why’ are put at the beginning of the sentences: wh-+ an auxiliary verb (be, do/does or have) + subject + main verb OR wh- + a modal verb+ subject + main verb: What have you been doing without us all this time?Therefore, we are to choose ANSWER 3: What (the question word) is (the auxiliary verb) the name of the street (the subject expressed by the noun phrase: the noun ‘name’ with the modifier ‘of the street’ that provides additional information about the word ‘name’). |
| topic | word order |
| level | 1 |
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